Customs: Love's Long Leap

Paris and Helen took off together in a
glorified canoe. Mark Antony and his Egyptian lady friend floated
around in a perfumed barge. Louis XIV used a carriage, and Edward VII a
train.
Leander swam  and drowned. Today's expense-account philanderers pursue
their sinful pleasures more securely via jet.

The jet has speeded up the art of assignation in a way that would have
dazzled the oldtime long-distance lovers; in the time an older
generation took to get to Atlantic City or Brighton, their descendants
are making it to Athens or Addis Ababa. In fact, a man and his...